The Hill House (West Franklin Street)

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1. about 1940 John Scott Trotter turns the old Bryan boarding house into The Hill House Mrs. Green Bryan's heirs sold her West Franklin Street boarding house to Trotter, who renovated it and named it The Hill House, with hotel rooms and rental apartments. Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 267
2. 1945 John Scott Trotter sells the Hill House on West Franklin Street to the Baptist church Trotter sold the Hill House, next to the Baptist church, to the congregation, which went on renting out its apartments. In 1958 the town's first public library opened in one of its rooms. Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 279
3. 1968 The old Hill House on West Franklin is condemned and boarded up after the library leaves With the public library gone to its new building on East Franklin, the run-down Hill House beside the Baptist church was condemned and closed up. Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 323

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